Flushing device for water-closets.



Patente'dfl'ay 14, 1901;-

(Application filed 3811.23, 1900.)

G W WILSON & J A WALKER FLUSHING DEVICE FOR WAT-ER CLOSETS.

(No Model.)

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GLENN W. WILSON AND JAMES A. WALKER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

FLUSHING DEVICE FOR WATER-CLOSETS.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,348, dated May 14, 1901.

Application filed January 23, 1900; Serial No. 2,559. CNO mode To all whom it nut/y concern:

Be it known that we, GLENN W. WILSON and JAMES A. WALKER, citizens of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flushing Devices forWater-Closets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct a device for flushing a water-closet and which is operated by the seat of the closet.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of our improvements, showing their connection with a water-tank and watercloset. Fig. 2 is a face representation with the cap removed, showing the parts in their normal positions. Fig. 3 is a similar view in which the reciprocating bar is raised by the action of the seat of the closet. Fig. 4 is a similar viewin which the cam-surface of the dog is just engaging the cam-surface of the cap. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the lever 6. Fig. 6 is an isometrical representation of the gravity-dog. Fig. 7 is an isometrical representation of the cap seen from the inside. Fig. 8 is an isometrical representation of the pull-rod. Fig. 9 is an isometrieal representation of the reciprocating bar.

In Figs. 2, 3, and 4 the cam-surface of the cap is shown in section. 5

A support 1 has a recess 2 in its face and is provided with legs 3 and feet 4, by which it is secured to the floor. from the support and to which is pivoted a lever 6, having its end 7 turned at right angles to its length. A reciprocating bar 8 has a sliding connection with the support its upper end having a recess 9, within which is located the inner end of the lever 6. An adjusting-screw 10 is supported in the upper end of the reciprocating bar, against which the end of the lever 6 rests. By means of this adjusting-screw 10 the position of the lever 6 with relation to the seat 28 may be easily regulated, so that the movement of the reciprocating bar, together with the length of pull on the pull-rod, may be controlled, so as to give the proper amount of movement to the chain to effectively operate the flushing-valve lever. The reciprocating bar has an extension 11, around which a coiled spring 12 is placed and is located between the lower end of the sup- A bracket 5 extends port and the pin 13 in the extension and serves to hold the reciprocating bar down in a yielding manner. A notch 14: is formed in the inner edge of the reciprocating bar. A pull-rod 15 is located in the recessed face of the support alongside the reciprocating bar, its inner face provided with a notch 16. Its upper end has an eye 17, and its lower end 18 is headed and provided with a rubber cushion 19. A gravity-dog 20 has a pivotal connection with the reciprocating bar 8 upon the stud 21. Its inner end has a projection 22 located in the notch-14 in the reciprocating bar. The inner end of the dog has a cam-surface 23. A cap 24 for the support has a cam-surface 25 on its inner face. i

The chain 26, connected with the tank 27 of the water-closet, has a connection with the eye 17 of the pull-rod 15, which holds it elevated, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The spring 13 holds the reciprocating bar down and the outer end of the lever 6 elevated, as shown at Fig. 1. The outer end of the lever is placed under the seat 28 of a water-closet, which will hold the seat elevated. When the closet is in use, the seat will be depressed, which will depress the outer end of the lever and raise the inner end ofthe lever and the reciprocating bar connected therewith against the action of the spring, and the inner end of the dog will be raised until the projection 22 enters the notch 16 in the pull-rod 15, thereby forming a connection between the reciprocating bar and pull-rod. Upon the seat of the closet being released the action of .the spring 12 will pull down on the reciprocating bar and through the dog connection will bring the pull-rod 15 with it, which will pull on the connection with the water-tank and flush the closet. Before the reciprocating bar has reached the limit of its descent the cam-surface 23 of the dog will engage the cam-surface 25 of the cap 24: and move the projection 22 of the dog from thenotch of the pull-rod back into the notch 14 of the reciprocating bar, thereby allowing the pull-rod to assume its normal elevated position, which is accomplished by the mechanism in the Water-tank. This operation is repeated each time the seat is depressed.

This attachment to water-closets employing a Water-tank performs the same function as the person using the closet should perform, but often neglects to do.

By means of the adjusting screw 10 the end 7 of the lever 6 can be adjusted as to height to properly place the lever under the seat of the closet.

lVe claim as our invention- In an attachment for Water-closets employing a water-tank, the combination with the closet-seat, of a suitable support having a recessed face, a lever pivoted intermediate its ends to said support and having at its forward end a lateral extension normally acting directly upon the under side of the seat to hold the same raised, a reciprocating bar freely mounted in the said recessed portion of the support and having an opening in its upper end into which the rear end of said lever freely passes, an adj listing-screw tapped in the end of said bar and acting upon the end of the lever, the lower end of said bar exteudingthrough the support, a coiled spring surrounding said extended end of the bar and normally acting to hold the same depressed for the purpose specified, a Weighted dog pivoted to the bar, said dog having a laterallyprojecting pin on one side and a cam at its front end, a pull-rod movably mounted in said recessed support alongside the reciprocating bar and having a notch in one edge adapted to receive the pin on the dog when the bar carrying the latter is in its elevated position, a yielding buffer-head on the lower end of said pull-rod, a cap-plate removably fixed to said support over the recessed face thereof, and a cam formed on the inner side of said cap-plate and coacting with the camface on the dog to release the pin carried thereby from the notch in the pull-rod, for the purpose specified.

GLENN W. WILSON. JAMES A. WALKER.

Witnesses:

A. O. BEHEL, E. BEI-IEL. 

